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Roy Irving Murray

Best known for the early 20th-century book August First, this little-documented writer appears to have worked in religious and reflective literature as well as fiction. The surviving record is sparse, but the books linked to his name suggest a voice shaped by pastoral life and Christian devotion.

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August First

August First

by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, Roy Irving Murray

About the author

Very little biographical information about Roy Irving Murray is readily confirmed in reliable public sources. He is credited as co-author, with Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, of August First, a work first published in 1915 and later preserved by Project Gutenberg.

He is also credited with The Tree Bears Fruit: Meditations for Good Friday on the Sayings from the Cross, which points to a strong connection with Christian meditation and sermon-like writing. Taken together, the small body of work associated with him suggests an author interested in clergy life, faith, and the moral pressures of everyday experience.

Because so few solid personal details are available, it is safest to remember him through the tone of his writing rather than through a full life story. His surviving books reflect a gentle, serious engagement with religion and human character that still gives modern readers a glimpse of an older devotional literary world.